NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 777, 9 June 1877, Page 2

NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Amongst the many improvements which are now being made m Hamilton, and which bid fair before long to make that township, a place of considerable importance, are the new drain-tile and pottery work rapidly approaching completion, situate on land purchased from Dr Carey. Messrs Wright and Vincent, ,the enterprising proprietors, have been engaged for a long time past on the necessary work and the erection of machinery, which lias all been made m Auckland from designs by Mr Wright. On visiting the works we were courteously received by Mr Wright, who took U8 first into the mill-shed, a building 26ft square, situated clos« to a hill of clay formation, which we were assured, contained an inexhaustible supply of the finest clay to be obtained m the provincial district of Auckland. In this shbd is the pug-mill worked by horse - power, and communicating with the tile and pottery shed, a building: BQft long, and containing first a double-dye tile machine, which works atr both endg, turning out at. one end drain tiles of 12in diameter, and at the other tiles as small as 2in diameter. The machine runs the tilesen to tables with revolving rollers, where, by a simple but an ingenious method, they are cut into the. proper lengths by wire. In this shed also is the potter's wheel, which -our /space forbid* us

fora describing. Messrs Wright lid Ysncent informed us iHiat \ m their intention besides making rttft tiles, for which there,, is Lkely. to be a large demand, o make-chimney-pots, fancy cornice nid ■> brnam«ntal -fctjick chimnty)ieoe, * ' britclf^lß atticl :trus jes for - wiildihg. ; purposes, flo wev- pp ts, g«rien Vwies, miik dijlties, cream jars, • ind^i<^rehfc«alij all kihds of fancy lottery. Farther information \yith ill particular's will shortly appear m Diir adr«Lising columns, and we 3inceraly. trust-4hat'-the-spirited-p.rojfrietorp mil resep' a rich 'reward for th§ enterpri»i shown and the large .capital expended. ! ._ . . . .' , . . . j.